Supply Siders

The economically conservative Republicans rely on a theory of money movement called "supply side". It is a euphemism for the GOP'ers buddies getting free hand outs or preferential handouts or both

The Iraq crime is a case study, for conservatives, on supply side economics. Read how it works.....

New revelations have emerged about how tens of millions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted in Iraq. A new report by government watchdogs singles out a big American contractor - Parsons - for shoddy work. Investigators charge that Parsons managed to turn a flagship project to help train Iraqi police into a hall of horrors using taxpayer money.

The Baghdad Police Academy was supposed to be a showcase to train Iraqi police - key to the U.S. strategy.

Instead, Wednesday's report says the American construction company turned it into a disaster from the start: incomplete and substandard designs, shoddy construction and no real quality control.[..]Here's what Parsons delivered for taxpayers' $62 million:

* Shoddily built brick walls.
* Cracking concrete.
* Exposed reinforced steel bars.
* Buildings without enough power or with faulty electrical box wiring.
* Plumbing so bad that when cadets used it, human waste rained through light fixtures and ceilings.

The report places some blame on the Army Corps of Engineers, which was supposed to oversee the project.

"They actually awarded Parsons merit increases despite widespread evidence of deficient work," says Rep. Susan Collins, R-Maine.

See Susan Collins statement? That's how supply side works. The building is literally unuseable after all the millions were wasted, so what did the supply siders think was the best course of action? Award. Merit. Increases.

These are the economic heroes of the conservative think tanks demonstrating the invisible hand of the marketplace for all to see. Behold the fucking wisdom.

Source: MSNBC.Com